Re: success and constipation questions after first week

[Guest guest]

Dear Vonny,

After a good introduction, apple sauce and pear sauce is good for

constipation and so is orange sauce (more drinkable).....easy to

digest and high in fiber. Also, try some SCD yogurt, SCD

probiotics, SCD accidophilus and lots of water and SCD watered down

apple cider...this will get a plugged gut back into balance too.

Try this first. I still say peel and cook the first month or so.

Die Off can cause constipation! Amoung many things. His gut may

be sicker than he once believed!

If your husband is not having serious digestion problems and does

not have GI disease...maybe try a little ras apple or carrot if the

above does not work...but I would still peel it! Be careful

jumping. In this house we always pay! But if he is healthy...he

maybe able to get away with it. This is soooo cool that you are

doing this as a family! So are we! My husband was the biggest baby

of the group too! LOL!!!!

We also had success for a while GFCFSF....it wore off though...is

the only thing I can think. Failed miserably...that is why we are

here!

Since SCD mimics the origional diet of mankind....they learned that

we don't have to have grain fiber to be healthy. Up untill

recently, the last .5% of the time mankind has been on the

planet...we did not eat grain or complex carbs....and yet we where

healthier in many ways. No one had the GI problems of our modern

socieity...let alone autism.

Antoinette and family of 5 SCD (celiac, add, adhd, asd,

hyperekplexia) 2/06

[Guest guest]

Hi Vonny,

> We are now on day 9, and although we are feeling a bit yuck, my 2

> kids (5yr boy with ASD, and 3yr NT girl) have not had any diarrhea

> for 4 days. Seems like a miracle to me. I could count the number

> of times what comes out of my daughter looks normal on one hand.

> Ewan was going really well on GF/CF,corn, banana and egg free for

a

> year or so, but has had horrible diarrhea since february.

That's wonderful to hear!

> Anyway my question is about other family members doing the diet

and

> getting enough fibre. Myself and my husband have been doing the

> diet with the kids. I have always had digestive issues, and have

> been GF/CF for 2 1/2 years. Doing this is the only thing that has

> helped a pain syndrome I have in my hands, so I am hoping for more

> relief with SCD.

> My husband is fairly healthy - although with all

> the diet gains we have made he seems determined to get some

benefit

> from SCD too. Anyway he is now very constipated and is walking

> round looking very sad and uncomfortable.

What foods is he eating now and how are any fruits and vegetables

prepared (ie. peeled, cooked etc.)?

I suggested to him to eat

> some food with more fibre, but wanted to ask you all what is best

to

> do. Should he jump forward a few stages and be eating raw fruit

and

> veges?

Sometimes more fibre will help (but not always), but knowing what he

is eating now helps us to make a better recommendation of what to

foods to add next. In the meantime, fluids (water and diluted legal

juice; at least 6-8 glasses/day) and hot drinks (legal tea etc) will

help stimulate peristalsis (contraction and movement of bowels).

Sheila, SCD 2/01, UC 22yrs

mom of and

[Guest guest]

Thanks Sheila,

He is eating mostly the intro diet, with some cooked fruits (apple

and pear.) We have recently tried spinach as well.

I will get him to drink more - see if that helps

Vonny

>

> Hi Vonny,

>

> > We are now on day 9, and although we are feeling a bit yuck, my

2

> > kids (5yr boy with ASD, and 3yr NT girl) have not had any

diarrhea

> > for 4 days. Seems like a miracle to me. I could count the

number

> > of times what comes out of my daughter looks normal on one

hand.

> > Ewan was going really well on GF/CF,corn, banana and egg free

for

> a

> > year or so, but has had horrible diarrhea since february.

>

>

> That's wonderful to hear!

>

> > Anyway my question is about other family members doing the diet

> and

> > getting enough fibre. Myself and my husband have been doing the

> > diet with the kids. I have always had digestive issues, and

have

> > been GF/CF for 2 1/2 years. Doing this is the only thing that

has

> > helped a pain syndrome I have in my hands, so I am hoping for

more

> > relief with SCD.

>

>

>

> > My husband is fairly healthy - although with all

> > the diet gains we have made he seems determined to get some

> benefit

> > from SCD too. Anyway he is now very constipated and is walking

> > round looking very sad and uncomfortable.

>

> What foods is he eating now and how are any fruits and vegetables

> prepared (ie. peeled, cooked etc.)?

>

> I suggested to him to eat

> > some food with more fibre, but wanted to ask you all what is

best

> to

> > do. Should he jump forward a few stages and be eating raw fruit

> and

> > veges?

>

> Sometimes more fibre will help (but not always), but knowing what

he

> is eating now helps us to make a better recommendation of what to

> foods to add next. In the meantime, fluids (water and diluted

legal

> juice; at least 6-8 glasses/day) and hot drinks (legal tea etc)

will

> help stimulate peristalsis (contraction and movement of bowels).

>

> Sheila, SCD 2/01, UC 22yrs

> mom of and

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Vonny,

> He is eating mostly the intro diet, with some cooked fruits (apple

> and pear.) We have recently tried spinach as well.

>

> I will get him to drink more - see if that helps

>

> > Anyway he is now very constipated and is walking

> > > round looking very sad and uncomfortable.

> >

There is some great info on constipation and a protocol to get

things " moving again " at

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/

Go to the " Knowledge Base " and then to

1. " Constipation " and

2. " Constipation continued "

Sheila, SCD 2/01, UC 22 yrs

mom of and